Like most music enthusiasts, you probably have hundreds, if not thousands, of tracks on your system, or even large AudioCD collections. Keeping a tab on where each piece of music is, and organizing and tagging it becomes very difficult, and you might find that a lot of your time is being wasted in searching for a track even when you just want to listen to it. AudioManage to the rescue!

Virtual heirachical views

AudioManage shows your entire collection in a virtual, 'tree' fashion, just like the folders and files heirachical structure that you are so used to using in Windows Explorer. Note that the actual files are never moved: they are only shown in this manner so that you are able to efficiently browse the collection. All this is done dynamically - none of these folders actually exist, they are created for you from an internal database just at the moment you open each folder, ensuring that you always get the most recent information. You can even choose if you want categories to be classified further (for example, you can open the 'by Artists & Album' folder, and view Albums of a particular Artist. You can then go inside that album, and view it's tracks.

You will find that since Windows Explorer is used to browse the library, there is virtually a zero learning curve: everything works just as you expect it to!

Automatic, format-independant tagging

While there are many ways in which AudioManage makes your collections available for viewing, the most commonly used ones are 'by Album', 'by Artist', and 'by Genre'. For this reason, we have placed them in the 'main folder'. Lets say you are looking for "Carrie Underwood", and you see TWO folders: 'Carrie Underwood' and 'Cary Underwood'. You know that someone must have made that spelling mistake while entering the details of the songs. So what do you do? Normally, you will have to visit each file, whereever it may be, and open it in an mp3 tag editor, changing the appropriate tags (assuming your tag editor supports that particular file format!). Not so in AudioManage: you simple drag the folder 'Cary Underwood', over into the folder 'Carrie Underwood'. That's it. You've just organized, and tagged, in one small flick of the mouse! All files (irrespective of whereever they are) which had their artists marked as 'Cary Underwood' get updated to 'Carrie Underwood', and their tags are edited to reflect the change as well. Tags are automatically added if not already present. Note that we didn't even mention 'file format' at all: that's because you never have to worry about the format - AudioManage automatically makes the correct kind of change depending on the file format, with the end result - of being able to update your tracks - being most important. You only see your tracks as audio tracks, with properties that are more relevant to audio than to the computer 'files'. In fact, if you want, you can completely forget about file formats!